Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Literally hanging out for the last day of school.
'Literally'?? (see discussion on 'Word of the Year' thread.
Sounds like indecent exposure to me.
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I didn't think the challenge would come from explaining 'round peg in a square hole' - but then how do you argue with a student who states: "You could do that if the peg was smaller than the hole."
Lol. There's a kid that'll go far.
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Oh and how delightfully predictable that was, Kyle. Just for the record, can I engage in a discussion without having a detailed manifesto to hand? And could you in future shit-can the dopey innendo that I 'follow a standard National Party line' rather than expressing my own views in good faith?
You can engage in a discussion however you want. Just, you were asked for policy, and provided none. Or at least provided what often gets trotted out as either National Party or ACT policy, which is not actually policy at all, it's... whinging about the current state of affairs.
I don't mind whinging, particularly when things are crap, which they often are, but it's not policy. Policy is "we will put more money into XXX and change the law so that YYY", rather than "man people at the Ministry of Education talk crap".
And I didn't say, or indeed use 'innendo' to say you were following the standard National Party line. Just found it entertaining that what came out of your post was exactly what people find frustrating about John Key. How you got to the post is up to you.
To take a relatively mind example, could you make any sense of what the Education Ministry spokeswoman on Close Up last night was going on about?
Can't say I watch Close Up. From your comments, I'm not sure why you watch it either :)
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If anyone was stupid enough to make me Prime Minister, that would be pretty conclusive evidence that public education is a total waste of time. But a good start would be if every education policy debate wasn't framed as Apocalypse Now(-ish). It might also help detox things a bit if the Education Ministry, NZQA etc. required senior management and spokesmen to speak and write plain English rather than managerial gobbledeygook. Perhaps I'm an old crank, but Yes, Minister is a sublime politcal satire not a staff training video.
I was entertained Craig how your response followed what I find to be a standard National Party line, particularly in the Key reign. "Intelligent debate", "less bureaucracy", "no hip hop tours" etc, but not actually any policy, when that's what was asked for.
Apparently policy talk trickles down, even if the benefits of new right restructuring never did.
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Russell a while ago was discussing facebook advertising. I can't find the original post, so I'm going off topic.
This was in my facebook feed this morning:
eToro is A revolutionary platform that makes it faster and easier than ever to execute traders
It seemed like a strange advert to me until I actually followed the link and realised that the advert had added an extra 'r' in the last word. 'Trades' made much more advertising sense, if less attractive to a lot of people I'm sure.
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So if there's no concrete evidence of an undeclared nuclear weapons programme. how will the US know where to bomb?
No it's OK. They have smart bombs. They'll know where to explode.
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"Fuck!!" (in Persian of course)
Iranians speak Farsi redneck...
I'm no expert on the topic, but at least according to Wikipedia you should check things out before you open your mouth. Particularly if you're going to be y'know, rude about it. Farsi and Persian seems to mean the same thing.
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For instance, say this amazing intel is from some agent working in Iran? What's to say they aren't a double-agent? Or it's an Iranian double-agent that's been turned. Can we be sure they aren't a double-double-agent? Or perhaps it's just opportunists selling info to the highest bidder, who don't actually have any real intel at all. Maybe it's some covert team who have penetrated an abandoned nuke project? Who can say it just hasn't been moved?
You'd like to think that professional intelligence services with multi gazillion dollar budgets would be fairly good at sniffing such things out. Seeking other independent sources, physical evidence which backs up what they've been told. Just plain knowing when they've been lied to.
Of course, you'd _like_ to think that, the reality of the American intelligence service over the past few years however...
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camping surely? The number 1 result for "kiwi bamping" when I search Google refers entirely to this Zeitgeist page...must be a typo.
You're creating a self-fulfilling error there. Bamping will soon be a leading search term, with people trying to figure out what the hell it is.
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Can't be bothered looking this up, but isn't "foul" the modern spelling of "fell" anyway?
Foul is a bad smell. Fell is cruel or fierce. Fell has French origins and is the same place that felon comes from. Foul apparently comes from ful, which is Old English.